Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts

It's fair to say that I never really got the hang of the controls for SF0.  Arguably I didn't give it much of a chance, but after the fourth death on the same boss (Titania), my patience, never a strong suit, ran out.  I never felt like I was making progress with them, rather shuffling through despite them (until I couldn't any more); and after four attempts at trying to hurt the boss, outrun his sand waves, and avoid getting shot to pieces by the copious goons he released, I gave up.  

I managed to finish KIU, a game which married a peculiar control scheme with an equally peculiar difficulty slider, allowing me to progress through the game despite my on-land gripes.  Ironically, I found KIU's air controls perfect and intuitive, and wonder if they might not have been better for SF0?

Other than that and the slow dull Gyrocopter, I enjoyed SF0.  I liked the chunkiness of the textures, the dialogue, the bosses etc.  It was an updating of Lylat Wars for the modern age, and I respect that.  But I feel that, in words everyone here will have read umpteen times already, the game would have been better going for a straight update, without simultaneously trying to justify the Wii U's existence.

UT is not a game I got stuck on, but after failing to persuade myself several times to return to the site of Papyrus' downfall, I reckon it's time for me to draw a line.  

I really want to experience the characters of this game.  The music is brilliant, the enemy design inspired.  And the way that the game logs tiny things, like whether you've already experienced Sans' whoopie cushion trick, is so so clever.

My problem is that it's a bit too clever.  I know what I'm meant to do: experience the game on neutral, then play it back through without hurting anyone to get the True Ending.



Any attempt to start playing this makes me feel like I'm just carrying out a trial run.  I sigh, knowing that I'm going to have to do this all over again later.  Maybe some small things will change, maybe they won't.  I'm bad at being "bad" in games, so this current run is going to be pretty close to Pacifist anyway, just without the rewards.  

Add into that the lack of progression from sparing enemies (there's a reason the EXP system is so popular), the retraux art style that makes the areas that much less thrilling to experience, and my incompetence at bullet hell; and you've got a game that I want to experience, but not to play.  Not when I'll have to repeat most of it to get the correct ending.

So I'm just going to leave it unfinished and watch a Pacifist LP.

My memory of the game is a tad hazy, but if I recall correctly, the major chunk of new content in the pacifist playthrough comes after the encounter with Mettaton EX. Although, if you've not seen a neutral playthrough, I'd recommend watching one. Parts of the pacifist playthrough won't really make sense without knowledge of what happens in the neutral ending.